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Jun 1, 2020 · Johann August Bach (Law Professor, Bach's Pupil) Born: May 18, 1721 - Hohendorf, near Borna, Saxony, Germany. Died: December 6, 1758 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Johann August Bach was born the son Johann Bach ( 1685 - 1749; Pastor in Hohendorf, not related to J.S. Bach) and Anna Dorothea Schumann. He enrolled at the Thomasschule in Leipzig on ...
Dec 25, 2016 · December 25, 2016. Bach, who obsessively copied out other composers’ scores, became an absolute master of his art by never ceasing to be a student of it. Illustration by Matt Dorfman. “O Lord ...
Sep 5, 2013 · Johann Samuel Bach (No. 34), and Johann Christian Bach (No. 35), settled at Sondershausen as musicians. Johann Günther Bach (No. 36) was tenor singer and schoolmaster at Erfurt. Johann Ernst Bach (No. 37) studied law and became a barrister, but was also an organist and composer. He died in 1781 as Capellmeister to the Count of Weimar.
- Catharina Dorothea Bach
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- 3 & 4. Johann Christoph Bach and Maria Sophia Bach
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
- Leopold Augustus Bach
- Christina Sophia Henrietta
- Gottfried Heinrich Bach
- Christian Gottlieb Bach
- Elisabeth Juliana Friederica
Bach's first born child. Composing wasn't an option for women in those days but Catharina excelled as a singer and often helped her father with his work.
J.S. Bach's eldest son with his first wife, Maria Barbara. Wilhelm followed in his father's footsteps and became a composer. J.S. Bach even wrote Wilhelm a graded course of keyboard studies, called the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Thanks to his intensive musical training, Wilhelm went on to become an organist and taught none other t...
J.S. Bach's third and fourth children, twins, were born on 23 February 1713 when Bach was 28. Johann Christoph lived no longer than a few hours after his birth, and his sister died a few weeks later, around the 13 March 1713. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Getty
Arguably the most gifted of J.S. Bach’s offspring, C.P.E. Bach was a highly original composer of symphonies, keyboard and choral music. Building on the Baroque training he learned as a boy, he became one of the foremost clavier players in Europe (after studying for a degree in law). His Essay on the True Art of Keyboard Playingestablished him as th...
Johann Gottfried was born on 11 May 1715 and, as was the case with his brothers, went on to become a professional musician. Unlike them, however, he didn't have the opportunity to go to university, and secretly abandoned his musical career in order to study law. He died at the tender age of 24.
Born on 15 November, Bach's seventh child lived for ten short months, and was buried on 29 September 1719. His godfather, a prince, also named Leopold, employed Bach as Kapellmeister between 1717 and 1723.
After Bach's wife Maria Barbara died, he went on to marry Anna Magdalena Wilcke. Their first daughter was born in 1723, the same year Bach signed a contract to become the Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but died three years later.
It's thought Gottfried was mildly mentally handicapped in some way, signs of which were picked up from an early age. Luckily he had plenty of supportive siblings: C.P.E. Bach said his younger brother showed a 'great genius, which failed to develop'.
Another tragically short-lived son, Christian Gottlieb only survived three years. He died on 21 September 1728.
1726 marks a year of joy and tragedy for the Bach family – just two months after Elisabeth was born, her elder sister Christiana died at the age of three. Elisabeth, however, survived into adulthood, and went on to marry one of her father's pupils, German organist Johann Christoph Altnikol.
When Johann August Abraham Bach was born on 5 November 1733, in Leipzig, Amt Leipzig, Saxony, his father, Johann Sebastian Bach, was 48 and his mother, Anna Magdalena Wilke, was 32. He died on 6 November 1733, in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, at the age of 0, and was buried in Leipzig, Kreis Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.
Bach in a 1748 portrait by Haussmann. Johann Sebastian Bach ( German pronunciation: [joˈhan] or [ˈjoːhan zeˈbastjan ˈbax]) (31 March 1685 [ O.S. 21 March] – 28 July 1750) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose ecclesiastical and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together ...
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Bach-Archiv Leipzig. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is one of the most influential musicians of all times - in 2011, the New York Times named him the most important composer in the history of music. Although the story of his life still holds some white spots, his life and legacy are being kept alive - especially in Leipzig, where he served ...
